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On Thanksgiving, we're running to help end world hunger!

On November 22, 2012 we will run the Lifetime Fitness Turkey Day 5K through down town Phoenix and while running this race, we've set the goal to raise $1,000 for Food for the Hungry, to impact the lives of people experiencing hunger and poverty around the world.

You can join us by making a donation of $25, $50, $100 or any amount to Food for the Hungry.  Food for the Hungry is a faith-based, non-profit international relief and development organization serving the poor globally since 1971. Your donation is tax-deductible, and you will receive a receipt from Food for the Hungry.

Do Good; Make Your Friends Run Like Wild Turkeys!

To add a little fun and Thanksgiving spice, if you help us meet the goal of:

• $250 we will run the race with this turkey shirt with every donors name on a feather

• $500 we will run the race with the turkey shirt and these turkey drumstick headbands

• $750  we will run the race with the turkey shirt and these turkey hats

• $1,000 - Rachel will run the race in this turkey tu-tu, and Caleb will run in this full body TURKEY SUIT!

This Thanksgiving help fight hunger and transform lives like Mutabazi and Esperance from Burundi:

Mutabazi and Esperance live in an impoverished community in Burundi where Food for the Hungry works.

The young couple had three children – until the oldest died from hunger. Before Food for the Hungry began distributing food in their community, the family never knew where their next meal would come from. They tried to eat at least once a day, but that didn’t always happen.

Food for the Hungry began distributing food in the family’s community after the country had experienced a 12-year civil war that left hundreds of thousands of people homeless and desperate for food. But that was only enough to help families survive until harvest season. Unfortunately, many had no farming implements, seeds or land.

The next step was to begin development projects that would help the people move beyond survival to food security.  Food for the Hungry’s longer-term goal was to enable farmers like Mutabazi to not only grow enough food to feed their families, but also to increase their incomes.

FH encouraged them to work together in agricultural cooperatives to learn and teach each other new techniques. We helped them grow more nutritious food – and crops that would be more drought-resistant.  In spite of delayed rainfall, the farmers in this area are harvesting more produce – five times more beans and 12 times more maize … and more is expected. They’re now able to feed themselves and their livestock, as well as sell what’s left over.

The area where Mutabazi and Esperance live has done so well that one of the communities is now able to take over their own development, thanks to Food for the Hungry's work in their community and  focus on sustainable development.

To read this full blog post by Karen Randau from Food for the Hungry go to: http://blog.fh.org/2012/10/beyond-survival-worlds-poorest-country/

To learn more about the work of Food for the Hungry visit their website: www.fh.org